Improvement in water-motors



UNITED STATES PATE T OFFICE. A

' ISAAC ORANDELL AND SAMUEL -P. BROWER, OF GLENS FALLS, NEW YORK,

ASSIGNORS OF ONE-HALF THEIR RIGHT TO FREDERICK J. P. OHITTY AND ISAAC J.DAVIS, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN WATER-MOTORS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 178,737, dated June 13,1876; application filed May 17, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ISAAC ORANDELL and SAMUEL P. BROWER, of Gle'nsFalls, in the county of VVarrenand State of New York, have inventedcertain new-and useful Improvements in Water-Motors; and we do herebydeclare that the following is a full, clear, and exact descriptionthereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and usethe same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, and to the let ters of reference marked thereon,which form a part of this specification.

Figure 1 of the drawings shows a plan of my invention, the cap of thecasing being removed. Fig. 2 is a section showing the water-supply tubesand the water-wheel in elevation. Fig. 3 is a section of the terminus ofthe supply-tubes, and of the buckets.

A represents a casing or box adapted to be screwed or otherwise secured.to a table or bench, from which a waste-pipe or drain of suitablecharacter leads to carry off the water. Upon the sides of this box or inthe upper edges thereof, suitable bearings B B a are provided, in whichthe shaft of the waterwheel 0 is mounted. Upon the extremity of thisshaft-is secured a driving-pulley, D, for..

transmitting the power of the wheel to any desired point or mechanism.Leading through the side of the casing are a series of pipes, E,arranged in the same vertical plane, having their delivery regulated atabout the angle shown, so that the water passing therethrough willstrike the buckets nearly at right angles with the plane of the bottomthereof. It is obvious that these supply-pipes may be made of differentdiameters. There are also provided at the extremity'of these pipesbushings e e, for the purpose of regulating, when desired, the amount ofwater admitted to the wheel.

Another means of regulating the quantity of water to be used is throughthe medium of a valve, which will form the subject of a separateapplication, by which the water from a single large supply-pipe may beshut off from any one or more of the pipes 'E. By the means referred tothe most complete control of the amount of water to be used is obtained,thus adapting a wheel of a given size to perform work of greatly varyingdegrees of power without any waste of water whatever. This motor isintended for light work where there is a limited supply of water, andwhere it is important to economize the use of the same. F represents thebuckets of the waterwheel made substantially in the form shown that isto say, the bottom of the buckets are slightly curved in longitudinalsection, and

having sides so as to partially confine the water. These buckets aresecured to the side of the rim of the wheel, and receive the force ofthe Water from the pipe or pipes E, as before stated, at about rightangles with the plane of their bottom. The application of the water isupon the under side of the Wheel, making it what would be technicallytermed an undershot-wheel.

By constructing the wheel and bucketsin the form shown, and applying thepoweras setforth, considerable power may be obtained from a wheel ofsmall dimensions, and with a very small quantity of water, having nogreat degree of head-that is to say, the greatest available amount ofpower is obtained from a given small quantity of water, and this too,with a perfect clearance ,of the water from the wheel at a point whereit is readily conducted away by the waste-pipe. A cover, however, isprovided to the casing, which confines all of the Water or spray from arapid motion of the wheel, so that this motor may be used in any part ofa dwelling 'for propelling sewing or other machinery without difficulty.

It will be observed that a shoe, 2', is connected with the extremity ofthe pipes,'and

projects laterally withinthe rim of the wheel which is constructed forthis purpose and thereby retains the pipes in their relative positions.It will also be observed that the ends of the pipes are bent inward todeliver the water properly to the buckets while constituting noobstruction to the revolution of the wheel.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The wheel 0 consisting of a disk, from one side of which projecttheslightly-ourved buckets F, having sides so as tojpartially confinethe water, the construction and operation being as described.

2. The combination, with the pipes E, of bushings, as'and for thepurposes specified.

3. The combinatiomwith a series of supplypipes and wheel, oftheconstruction shown, of the supporting and guiding show, as setfort-h.

4. The combination, with the wheel shown,

of bent pipes E, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

5. The combination, with the wheel shown,

of the series of pipes E, and a single regulat ing valve or cook forcausing thewater to flow through either one or more of the series of h,pipes,tas set forth.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our own, weaffixoursignatures in the presence of two witnesses.

. ISAAC ORANDELL.

SAMUEL P. BROWER. Witnesses:

WM. A. WAIT, A. W. MORGAN.

